ISAW Library New Titles: January-February 2019

Lists of books added to the ISAW Library in January and February 2019 are now available online on the ISAW Library website. The titles are sorted in the website version according to thematic topics (e.g., "China, South Asia, & East Asia" and "Near East & Asia Minor"); and within each topic, the titles are organized according to Library of Congress classification. The authors and titles of works in non-Roman languages are given in their original script. These lists are also available in our Zotero library and as browsable maps (Jan., Feb.) created using Google Fusion Tables. [Update, February 2021: Our new map interface is now live. The map for January 2019 is here, and the map for February 2019 is here.]

437 items were added to the library's collection in January and February. Notable among titles added to the library at the beginning of 2019 are several titles on Upper Mesopotamia and Asia Minor in the Achaemenid and Sasanian periods, including:

• The Syriac world, edited by Daniel King (Small Collection DS28.S97 S97 2018) 
• How did the Persian king of kings get his wine?: the upper Tigris in antiquity (c.700 BCE to 636 CE) by Anthony Comfort and Michał Marciak (Small Collection DS56.C584 2018)
• The Iranian expanse: transforming royal identity through architecture, landscape, and the built environment, 550 BCE-642 CE by Matthew P. Canepa (Large Collection NA225 .C36 2018). 
• Alphabet scribes in the land of cuneiform: sēpiru professionals in Mesopotamia in the neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid periods by Yigal Bloch (Small Collection PJ3019 .B57 2018) 
• Contributions à l'histoire et la géographie historique de l'empire sassanide, edited by Rika Gyselen (Large Collection DS41 .R47 v.16 2004)

Central Asia is also well represented in January and February's new titles:

• Āzandnāmē: an edition and literary-critical study of the Manichaean-Sogdian parable-book by Adam Benkato (Small Collection BT1410 .B455 2017) 
• Studies on the Sogdian epistolary tradition by Adam Benkato (Large Collection PK6199.9 .B46 2018) 
• 高昌石窟壁畫綫描集. 吐峪溝石窟 = Line drawings of the wall paintings in Gaochang : Tuyuq caves 1 (Large Collection ND2849.X56 X823 2017) 
• 欧亚草原东部的金属之路: 丝绸之路与匈奴联盟的孕育过程 = The metal road of the Eastern Eurasian steppe : the growing of Xiongnu confederation and the Silk Road. (Small Collection NK7983.A1 Y364 2017) 
• Monuments of Merv: traditional buildings of the Karakum by Georgina Herrmann (Large Collection NA1492.372.M47 H47 1999) 
• Каракумские древности, vyp. 5 (1977)-vyp. 8 (1979) (Oak Collection DK939.K35 K3 vyp. 5 (1977)-vyp. 8 (1979)) 

As always, the titles added to the ISAW Library for the entire academic year may be found both on our website and in our Zotero library. You can also follow our progress on Facebook and Twitter.

If you have any comments or suggestions about our recent acquisitions, the associated Zotero library, or our ongoing collection mapping project, please feel free to contact us.